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19.02.2026 23:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@evanstruth.bsky.social
I care deeply about the wellbeing of my community. I'm also into art, sports and D&D. Working to end homelessness in Santa Cruz County at peoplefirstscc.org. Writing at evanstruth.com
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19.02.2026 23:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Spread the word!
19.02.2026 19:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I don't understand... doesn't this make the obvious incentive to just turn all bathrooms into all gender bathrooms? If I was subject to paying a $10k fine if the wrong person was in my bathroom, I'd be like "ALL GENDERS IN ALL BATHROOMS ALL THE TIME!"
17.02.2026 19:19 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
14.02.2026 19:55 โ ๐ 719 ๐ 206 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 26I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
it doesn't matter how talented they are, they aren't going to fit www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
11.02.2026 17:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I see a couple life lessons about work here:
1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back
2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...
Please let me know when you find something
09.02.2026 06:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh great, okay! No rush
08.02.2026 00:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0speaking of messaging... I emailed you a couple weeks ago. No worries if you aren't interested, but I also wonder if it went to your spam?
08.02.2026 00:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Got it, thanks you!!!
04.02.2026 01:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
01.02.2026 17:37 โ ๐ 3781 ๐ 1962 ๐ฌ 53 ๐ 122Santa Cruz County has made big strides on homelessness. But what's happening federally is threatening all of our gains. Here's how you can make a difference app.lookout.co/story/298249...
29.01.2026 18:14 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Harvard Business Review calls our political system a duopoly. I wonder if it's better described as a cartel youtu.be/NE61lMiZV2k
25.01.2026 17:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
25.01.2026 14:24 โ ๐ 18727 ๐ 4856 ๐ฌ 159 ๐ 105Back in July, research showed that 40% of employers had already posted fake job listings in 2025 www.forbes.com/sites/bryanr...
22.01.2026 17:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When I think about ICE, it seems obvious to me that this is what they are doing
22.01.2026 15:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 01๏ธโฃ He didn't say that.
2๏ธโฃ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3๏ธโฃ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4๏ธโฃ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5๏ธโฃ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6๏ธโฃ Look what you liberals made him do.
I wonder what folks in Europe are thinking right now? How could they be viewing current events? decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...
19.01.2026 16:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of โ and reward them for โ that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
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I think it's important to note that there are quite a few American businesses that haven't turned their back on our democracy open.substack.com/pub/populari...
18.01.2026 17:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
17.01.2026 18:50 โ ๐ 4339 ๐ 1517 ๐ฌ 88 ๐ 26WOMAN! CRY!
17.01.2026 06:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i have been reading Tom Ricksโ โFighting the Good Warโ which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
16.01.2026 13:55 โ ๐ 2969 ๐ 717 ๐ฌ 41 ๐ 59If this happens, get me on this show. The world will never be the same. I'll only need one episode. The stuff I say on whiskey... ๐คช
14.01.2026 04:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An honest assessment of the current status of higher education in America open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...
12.01.2026 20:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wowwwwww
11.01.2026 05:01 โ ๐ 269 ๐ 58 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time.
This is performative authoritarianism.
performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. Itโs not a joke.
But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation.
They lack the numbers to win.